Democrats are struggling to respond to Trump

EVERY DAY, President Donald Trump gives fresh reasons for Democrats to rue their election loss in 2024. The failures of Joe B...

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Chinese warships circumnavigate another island:Australia

Having built the world’s largest navy, China is keen to show it off. But officials from Australia and New Zealand have been s...

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Donald Trump deploys new tactics to manage the media

“Why don’t you wear a suit?…Do you own a suit?” The first question from the White House press pool to Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukr...

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How Mumsnet changed Britain

Twenty-five years ago this month, a new website appeared. The dotcom boom was at its height, and the internet was hot and mod...

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Indonesia’s shakedown of Apple comes to an end

It was billed as a stand for “principles of fairness” against an uncaring foreign tech giant. Such was the heady rhetoric Ind...

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Jack Vettriano was a fantastic painter

His name was perfect. Jack is reassuringly British. Vettriano, a version of his mother’s maiden name, is chic and Italian. Th...

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Europe sounds increasingly French

“THe real victim of this affair”, he concluded, is “the Atlantic alliance…If our allies have abandoned us in difficult, if no...

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Mexico claims US gunmakers sold weapons to cartels

On March 4th, hours after Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 25% on Mexican exports to the United States, Mexico’s government st...

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Lebanon’s new government must do three big things immediately

IT IS almost like starting a government from scratch. When the president of Cyprus came to visit his Lebanese counterpart in ...

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Lifting sanctions on Syria seems mad, until you consider the alternative

A decade ago Ahmed al-Sharaa was masterminding suicide-bombings as the second-in-command of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. Th...

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